Flight & Barr Worcester

This is a set of five exceptional plates made by Flight Barr and Barr Worcester in England circa 1820. Each plate features a delicate hand-painted shell in a roundel at the center. T...

This set of porcelain dishes was hand-painted by Flight Barr Worcester between 1792 and 1803. Each of the six dishes can be seen in one of the first three images. The pattern feature...

This set of three antique English porcelain plates was hand-painted by Barr Flight Barr Worcester circa 1820. The plates are decorated in the colorful and highly sought-after “Fence ...

An early Worcester Flight & Barr bright yellow beaker with gilding and a finely painted sepia scene of a landscape. The scene, possibly painted by John Pennington, shows two figures ...

A very good Porcelain Coffee Can with a ring handle, hand decorated with an orange and gilt pattern by Worcester during the Barr period, fully marked to...

This antique Worcester porcelain dessert set was hand-gilded in England during the Regency period, around 1820. Created by Flight Barr Worcester, the set features the distinctive "St...

Flight & Barr Worcester Porcelain Botanical Dessert Plate, Circa 1792–1804 This Flight & Barr Worcester porcelain dessert plate has a lobed rim edged in gilt and a wide border painted with three flowering plants in a repeating sequence, each appearing twice. The largest are two double poppies in iron-red, their deeply fringed petals blotched maroon-black at the base around a pale seed capsule ringed with dark stamens; this is the laciniate garden form of Papaver somniferum known in the eighteenth century as the carnation poppy, and each is painted with its bristly stem and a gray-green lobed leaf. Between them alternate a full double yellow flower rising from deeply cut foliage, most probably a ranunculus or globe flower rather than the rose it superficially resembles, and a small pink flowering plant with two open blooms, a cluster of round buds and narrow gray-green leaves. A gilt line separates the border from the well, which is left white apart from a single small spray of purple flowers with yellow anthers at the center. The plants are handled with the attention to leaf, stem and seed head of botanical illustration, but they are arranged as a decorative repeat rather than as the named specimens found on Worcester botanical dessert services of the period, and the reverse carries only the factory mark. Dimensions: Diameter: 7 5/8 inches (19.4 cm) Height: 1/2 inch (1.3...